Bushwick Street Art du Jour: C215

From Flushing Avenue.

Miss Heather

East Williamsburg Photos du Jour: A Meserole Street PSA

Taken April 11, 2011.

Miss Heather

East Williamsburg Street Art du Jour: Colbert’s Soup

April 11, 2011 ·
Filed under: 11206, East Williamsburg, East Williamsburg Brooklyn, Street Art 

From Moore Street.

Miss Heather

East Williamsburg Photo du Jour: Mixed Signals

From Debevoise Avenue.

Miss Heather

East Williamsburg Photo du Jour: M & S Supermarket

From Manhattan Avenue.

Miss Heather

From The New York Shitty Inbox: Tonight At Concrete Utopia

The details I received about this event are scant (READ: I got a mass email) but follows is the press release:

Spork Used As Knife (and other disconcerting events)

Opening Friday, April 1, 7-10

Featuring artists Maurice Doherty, Shana Moulton, Hilary Sand, Dave Sherry, and Curver Thoroddsen.
The exhibition investigates humor and performance and their unique ability to reflect the absurdity of everyday life. The history of performance art offers the medium as a means of rebellion, the act of breaking with the current state of art and politics. The work featured in “Spork Used As Knife” rather ruptures the personal experience of everyday life by forcing the viewer to turn his or her perspective, to view it from a skewed angle. The mirrored reflection of life by art comes ever closer in performance, and with the comfort offered by humor, begins to break down this distinction.

Each artist in the show approaches these barriers between the quotidian and The Quotidian from a different perspective, and through different mobilizations of the banal and the humorous.

This is a really exciting show, and has been an amazing opportunity to work with some brilliant artists.

Spork Used As Knife
Opening Reception: April 1, 2011 starting at 7:00 p.m.
Concrete Utopia
72 Scholes Street
Brooklyn, New York 11206

You can read more about Concrete Utopia by checking out their About page.

Miss Heather

From The New York Shitty Photo Pool: Charles J. King

Charles J King Iron & Steel Scrap: Bushwick Brooklyn

Last night I received a call from Chris Arnade. He wanted to know where this building was located (Grand Avenue) and how he could learn more about about its founder: Charles J. King. I suggested the Brooklyn Daily Eagle archives and later did a little digging. I didn’t learn anything about the man behind this wonderful building— but I learned who he was not. Without further ado I present for your April Fool’s Day delectation a case of mistaken identity and a slipped mickey courtesy of the December 16, 1900 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Enjoy!

So there!

Miss Heather

 

East Williamsburg Photos du Jour: Chirp!

From Graham Avenue.

Miss Heather

Quicklink: Trailer Trash!

Those of you, gentle Greenpoint readers, who have been wondering (as I have) why there are (at last count) eight trailers gracing our waterfront your search is over: Aaron Short of The Brooklyn Paper has the answer! And man oh Manischewitz is it a doozy. Follows is a teaser from his tome:

…About 25 plaid-clad pastorals hitched their trailers to a dream in a former nut-roasting factory on Meserole Street in 2009 — paying a mere $600 a month for rent and utilities.

The collective’s creatives were drawn to the vehicle village’s video editing and painting studios, wood and ceramic shops, free-range chicken farm, fish pond, and of course, the BBQ.

But the complaints of neighbors who didn’t understand country living — and disliked the smell of propane — forced the trailers to move to a back yard leased by Kings near Waterbury Street…

Oh, it gets better alright…

Reading is believing, folks.

UPDATE, 4:51 p.m.: Yours truly and the Mister went to India Street to check in on our trailer park with a view. It would appear one of these campers has been commandeered by our local vagrants. Mere breaking and entry or a cutting edge counter-proposal to the homeless shelter slated for 400 McGuinness Boulevard? I’ll let you, dear readers, make the call!

Miss Heather

 

The Word On The Street, Part II: Been There, Done That

From Debevoise Street.

Miss Heather

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